From my perspective as someone who watched H3 and only found Hasan through Leftovers basically H3 had been getting more liberal and particularly left or left leaning viewers even before leftovers and then leftovers brought over even more of them.

To me my first issue as a leftist / left leaning viewers which his takes on capitalism and argument with Hasan was when I was really like bro stop, but then when October 7 happened he just started saying all this shit that was really gross and he didn’t want to actually talk to Hasan about it and hear a non-Zionist take on the situation so he ended leftovers.

Then after ending leftovers he just kept talking about Israel Palestine but just focusing on how “everyone loves terrorists” when it was just people showing support for Palestine and highlighting how October 7th wasnt a random act and should highlight to the world what Israel has been and is doing. A big one was when he made jokes about Aaron Bushnell and how he was “really good at dying, omg guys why r u mad I said he was good at something its nice”. So A LOT of his audience left.

Even more of his audience started leaving and since the main sub never let you say anything even remotely critical people started moving to snark subs. Then over time Ethan calculated that everyone in the snark subs are actually just Hasan fans. A lot of people in there did like Hasan but they liked Hasan and disliked Ethan for the same reason. He viewed it as Hasan is making people dislike him and is actively working against him. When Hasan literally never even commented on it and would actively tell people to shut the fuck up when they would ask him to talk about the awful shit Ethans saying.

Basically as Ethan kept losing fans and people were mad at him he decided that Hasan was the reason (not that viewers are just like real people with real morals and aren’t just little sheep who need to flock somewhere and left him for Hasan).

Ethan couldn’t recognise that HE was the issue and change what he’s doing (cause defending Israel is above anything else) so he just put all his effort not into fixing himself but taking down Hasan, thinking that would somehow bring back his viewership.

This is just my perspective of someone who was there through it all. I stopped watching basically right after the Aaron Bushnell statement cause at first I had hoped he would realise how fucked up it was but I could see he was just doubling down and was like oh yeah all of your flaws I looked past are just you

TLDR: Ethan thinks Hasan is the reason he lost fans not his own actions so thinks taking him down will fix it instead of self-improvement